2028 December 1, 2025November 30, 2025 Loads of wonderful young people have decided to Run For Something in 2026, many of them ex-military or CIA, following in the footsteps of people like Senator Elissa Slotkin and Congressman Seth Moulton with a special devotion to support and defend the Constitution. And then, after we win back the House and quite possibly the Senate (thank you for your help!), there will be 2028. Among the governors who may be in the running are Gavin Newsom, 58; JB Pritzker, 60; Gretchen Whitmer, 54 . . . and Andy Beshear of Kentucky (47), whose recent Washington Post essay, How Democrats can change rural red to blue, argues that “Democrats should be the party of aspiration — and talk like normal human beings.” Notions, I dare say, shared by virtually all our potential candidates. And then there’s the guy who, aged 38 (now 43), won the 2020 Iowa primary. Can a gay man be elected president? Scott Galloway and Ezra Klein discuss. The primaries will be wide open and, quite possibly, inspirational.* They should help remind people of which party is which. Ours is the party that — against consistent Republican opposition — gave the country weekends and the 40-hour work week; Social Security and Medicare; the minimum wage and consumer protections; the Affordable Care Act and the Family & Medical Leave Act; the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act; cleaner air and water; a whole suite of equal rights for LGBTQ Americans . . . . . . and the kinds of policies that led to far stronger job gains (10 of the last 11 recessions began under Republican presidents, not counting the one that may be brewing now). We’ve not been perfect by any means; but we’re really tried — including on immigration, where Republicans killed needed bi-partisan reform in 2007 and again in 2013 and 2024. How to encapsulate all this into a single, over-arching theme? As described here two weeks ago, Strong Floor, No Ceiling, is one possibility clearly gaining traction. OUR PRESIDENT MAY BE UNWELL ‘Trump will not make it to the end of this term compos mentis’ | Psychologist analyses Trump *With at least a touch of this 18-year-old Dutch boy’s youthful idealism (60 seconds).